RaiderNet Daily G. Ray Bodley High School, Fulton, NY Volume 4, Number 114 Wednesday, May 7, 2014 Senior night split for Raider track and field teams

By Jimmy Martin

After having back to back meets on Thurs- day and Friday of last week, the Raiders and Lady Raider track teamscontinued their busy week with another meet on Monday. It was the senior night for both teams. On the girls’ side seniors Liz Desantis, Angela Paul, Laura Hamden, Mikki Iijima, and Yusura Humayun. were all honored while on the boysí side Augusto Siega, Brandon Ladd, Chase Halstead, Chance Porter, Jimmy Mar- tin, Connor Aldasch, and Travis Kemp were noted prior to the meet. The teams faced the Chittenango Bears and the Jamesville-Dewitt Rams. The girls and boys both lost to J-D, but both beat Chittenango. The Raiders came in second as they lost 103-80 to J-D but beat Chittenango 80-37. The 4x800 team of Bailey Lutz, Jacob Belcher, Ian Devendorf, and Jimmy Martin It was a sea of red at the starting line on Monday as runners from Fulton and kicked things off ,winning in a time of 8:36. Jamesville-Dewitt charge out of the blocks. The Raiders gained a split on the Connor Aldasch kept things going as he took day to take a 3-3 mark into tonight’s meet at East Syracuse-Minoa. (Jack Ryan first in the 110 hurdles in a time of 16.8. photo) In the 1600 meter run Lutz finished in first. while in the 400 meter dash Mike Holcomb In the 100 hurdles, Amber DeStevens fin- claimed second place. In triple jump, and Jimmy Martin took first and second ished second with a time of 17.6. In the 100 Makenzie Loomis squeezed out the win as places. Aldasch proved he was the best hur- dash, the Lady Raiders could not score, but she won by half an inch. In high jump, Sh- dler on the day as he also won the 400 Callie Beckwith helped the team out as she annon Zych got the win with a jump of 4 hurdles. finished in second in the 1500 meter run in feet 8 inches. The Lady Raiders also main- In the 800 meter run, Lutz and Scott a time of 5:59.4. tained a .500 mark as they improved to 2-2. Littleton also took first and second. Once The 4x100 meter team of Kendyl Lutz, Both teams travel to East Syracuse-Minoa again, the Raiders struggled to score in the Erica Pawlewicz, Liz Desantis, and Amber this afternoon as they have their last meets sprinting events and were swept in the 200. Destevens took second, while in the 400 of the season in a tri-dual meet against ESM In the 3200 meter run, Martin took second. hurdles Destevens earned second place and CBA. Both teams hope to get two wins Fulton did finish on a high note as they won points and in the 4x400, the Lady Raiders and finish above .500. the 4x400 meter relay with a team composed of Devendorf, Littleton, Aldasch, and Softball falls in extra inning thriller Holcomb. In the field events, Nick Reitz captured the only win in shot put as he threw The varsity softball team played another outstanding game against defending section cham- 41-foot-6. After Monday night, the Raiders pions Jamesville-Dewitt, but in the end the Red Rams had the upper hand in a tough 1-0 improved to 3-3. victory that went nine innings. Alex Cantor’s RBI knock drove in Maggie Austin with the Girls gain split game’s only run while pitcher Kerri Keeler tossed a complete game one-hitter with nine The Lady Raiders lost to Jamesville Dewitt strikeouts. 113-27 but beat Chittenango 75-56. The girls Anna Guernsey provided Fulton’s lone hit while Mikayla Guernsey was the hard-luck placed third in the 4x800 meter relay but loser despite limiting the 10-0 Rams to just three hits. The loss left Fulton at 6-4 on the things slowly started to pick up from there. season while J-D escaped with its third one run win of the season. By Caitlin Chrisman Page 2 RaiderNet Daily The Files Everything you need to know about SpaceGodzilla It’s time for yet an- History and Backstory By Neal Burke other Godzilla Kaiju SpaceGodzilla was theorized to be created when some of Godzilla’s Class. As May 16 cells made it into space and fell into a black hole, mutating into a draws closer, the Godzilla fans may wonder if Godzilla’s new de- partial crystalline lifeform, and emerging from a white hole. It is sign or if the designs of his foes will live up to ’s many other still unknown what caused these G-cells to fall into the black hole monsters. Today’s topic is one of my personal favorites, a space but two theories were put in place. One was that the cells from monstrosity that is a clone of Godzilla himself. The God of De- Godzilla’s previous clone, , escaped earth’s orbit after she struction, SpaceGodzilla. fought Godzilla in 1989. The other theory was that Mothra un- knowingly took some Basic Stats of Godzilla’s cells Name: SpaceGodzilla with her into space Species: Spatial Godzilla Clone when she went to de- Height: 120 meters flect a meteor in 1992. Length: 250 meters (Flying Form) 240 meters (Final Form) SpaceGodzilla was Weight: 72,000 tons (Flying Form) 80,000 tons (Final Form) first seen flying Appearance through space and He looks a lot like Godzilla, but has navy-blue and dark reddish- sending crystals to purple skin and is taller. He has two big shoulder crystals on each Bass Island. The anti- shoulder and he has a longer tail and some other type of scutes(dorsal monster robot plates) on his back. He is also somewhat overweight and can’t move M.O.G.U.R.A., actu- very well, but he makes up for it with his ability to fly. ally built from the He also has very sharp teeth along with tusks on each side of his wreckage of mouth. His eyes are a bloody red and he has an orange crown on his 2, forehead. Interestingly enough, SpaceGodzilla’s design was inspired found him while he was on his way to Earth, but the space monster by Godzilla’s Super Godzilla form from the SNES game Super defeated it. Landing on Bass Island, SpaceGodzilla attacked Little Godzilla Godzilla, scaring the baby creature, until Godzilla came to save Personality him. He fought bravely to protect his son, but was ultimately de- I’m adding this part in because of SpaceGodzilla’s sheer amount of feated and SpaceGodzilla trapped Little Godzilla inside a crystal intelligence. Throughout his film, SpaceGodzilla shows remarkable prison. intelligence. He shows great planned combat strategy, when he traps Leaving Bass Island, SpaceGodzilla rampaged through a few cit- Godzilla’s son or when he harvested energy from buildings are prime ies before settling in Fukuoka where he builds a large crystal for- examples. tress, syphoning energy from Fukuoka Tower into himself and his This is furthered by the fact that SpaceGodzilla sought to conquer crystals. Godzilla makes his way to that area to defeat the space Earth under his own will, unlike other monsters, who either ram- monster. M.O.G.U.R.A. is dispatched to the area as well and ar- page randomly or are controlled by an external force. Unlike rived first. The mech battles well, even using its drill nose to attack Godzilla, who in the Heisei series of films is a force of nature, nei- SpaceGodzilla at close range, but is forced to retreat and as it does, ther good nor evil, SpaceGodzilla seems to possess an element of SpaceGodzilla blasts it with his Corona beam, taking the robot pure malice. down. The robot manages to escape before SpaceGodzilla can fin- According to the Cosmos, SpaceGodzilla was coming to Earth to ish it off and the crew conducts in-flight repairs while circling the defeat Godzilla so it would be defenseless when he dominated it. (continued on page 4) Reflections -THE- Salon & More Welcomes GRB grad Chelsea Poyne er! 608 South 4th Street-Fulton Call for an appointment today! 592-4415 Proud 20 Year sponsor of GRB Journalism May 7, 2014 Page 3

What’s happening at G. Ray Bodley High School? There will be a brief National Honor Society meeting after school in the auditorium on Tuesday, May 13. Registration for varsity golf is now taking place. Please see Mr. Ascenzi in the guidance office to sign up. Attention senior athletes: the deadline to RSVP for the Senior Athletic Banquet is due on Monday, May 12. Don’t miss this chance to be recognized for your athletic career here at GRB. See Coach Rothrock if you have any questions. Summer job information is available through the guidance office for students 16-20 yars old who meet eligibility guidelines. Pick up a Summer Youth Works informational flyer today. Summer driver education packets are now available in the guidance office. School physicals for sports and working papers will be available by appointment on Tuesday, May 20. Sign up in the nurse’s office now to make your appointment. Quirk’s Playes will be holding auditions for their fall production, The Pink Panther Strikes Again, later this month. Students who are interested in auditioning for the play need to sign up for an audition time before Wednesday, May 7. A sign-up sheet is posted on Mr. Nami’s office door. French Club meets every Tuesday after school in room 125. HOPE Club meets every Monday in room 119. Future Business Leaders of America meets every Monday in room 116. Fultonian Yearbook meets on Tuesdays in room 102. Come be a part of next year’s Fultonian by attending this week’s organizational meeting. See Mr. Senecal in room 228 during GSH for more details. What’s for lunch? Today: Cheese pizza with side salad, corn, and fresh apple with alternative of egg, ham & cheese taco to go. Thurs. May 8: Roasted turkey with gravy, biscuit, mashed potatoes, butternut squash Senior Jimmy Martin has been one of and mixed fruit cup with alternative of yogurt, cheese stick and jungle crackers. FUlton’s most consistent performers on the track this season, both as an individual performer and as part of This week in Raider Sports the Raider relay teams. (Jack Ryan Today:Softball vs. Chittenango; Baseball @ Chittenango; Girls lax @ J-D photo) (JV-4:30/V-6); Boys JV lax @ J-D (Lyndon Field 7); Boys V lax @ J-D. Wed. May 7: Track @ ES-M and CBA @ ES-M; Tennis vs. Homer. Thurs. May 8: V Baseball vs. Bishop Ludden; JV Baseball @ Bishop Ludden; Boys lax vs. Chittenango (JV-5/V-7); Tennis @ J-D. Fri. May 9: JV girls lax @ Chittenango; V Softball @ Homer; JV softball vs. Homer; Fulton Invitational Track Meet. Sat. May 10: Boys lax vs. C. Square (JV-noon/V-2 pm); Softball @ Strike Out Cancer Tourney (10 am & noon @ Oswego Legends Field).

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SpaceGodzilla is a video game favorite (from page 1) to increase his own powers. He can channel this energy into his battle field. crystal shoulder spikes and can shoot bolts of energy from them. Godzilla finally arrives and engages his cosmic clone in battle. Even just standing near his giant crystals increases his power and SpaceGodzilla uses his powers and nearly endless supply of energy he can also implant cosmic energy into structures and have them to his full advantage and assaults Godzilla with his Corona beam as serve as energy sources. well as blocking Godzilla’s atomic ray with his shield. When SpaceGodzilla’s most interesting abilities, and albeit his most SpaceGodzilla knocks the monster king down, he then uses his tele- frightening, are his telekinetic and telepathic powers which allow kinetic abilities to lift him up and smash him into a building before him to levitate and move other objects as well as himself with his lifting himself and several of his crystals up off the ground. As mind. This would mean that he has to have at least human level Godzilla gets back up, SpaceGodzilla launches the crystals like intelligence. Finally, SpaceGodzilla also emits an aura that creates spears. Godzilla is hit by many, but uses his atomic breath to de- electrical disturbances. All these powers make SpaceGodzilla one stroy the rest. of Godzilla’s most powerful foes. Now realizing it is next to impossible to fight SpaceGodzilla at Appearances close range, Godzilla set to destroying the matrix-like network of Film wise, SpaceGodzilla has only appeared in his debut film, crystals surrounding him as well as the tower serving as his main Godzilla vs SpaceGodzilla in 1994. However, the space monster power source. The M.O.G.U.R.A. crew realized this and decides to has appeared in nine Godzilla video games as well. They are: help Godzilla in this effort. Splitting the robot into the drill tank Godzilla: Giant Monster March, Godzilla: Archipelago Shock, Land Mogura and the aircraft Star Falcon, the crew divides to ac- Godzilla: Generations, Godzilla Trading Battle, Godzilla Genera- complish the mission. tions: Maximum Impact, Godzilla: Save the Earth, CR Godzilla The Star Falcon attacks SpaceGodzilla from the air while Land 3ST Battle, Godzilla Unleashed and the DS version of Godzilla Mogura burrows underground and helps to destroy the tower’s base. Unleashed called Godzilla Unleashed: Double Smash. Godzilla pounds on the tower and eventually it is brought down. In Godzilla Unleashed, SpaceGodzilla is actually the game’s pri- Land Mogura reemerges and joins with Star Falcon to reform mary antagonist, being responsible for a near apocalyptic series of M.O.G.U.R.A. and in tangent with Godzilla, they attack events involving powerful energy crystals that are reducing the SpaceGodzilla. The robot manages to blast off SpaceGodzilla’s world’s cities to ruin as well as being the leader of the Mutants shoulder crystals but loses one of its arms when the space monster faction of monsters. He is also playable in that game and is a very attacks in revenge and is impaled by his tail before being flung out powerful and very weaponry-oriented combatant. of the way and rendered inoperable. He can use crystals as attacks and can grow up to two crystal SpaceGodzilla and Godzilla continue the fight, Godzilla biting spikes out of the ground to help recharge his energy. His long tail SpaceGodzilla to disrupt his energy flow and SpaceGodzilla des- can also be used as an effective whip. He is just as tough defen- perately trying to absorb Godzilla’s energy. M.O.G.U.R.A. then sively as Destroyah, making him a very difficult opponent to de- suddenly takes off and crashes into SpaceGodzilla, knocking him feat. He also has made appearances in IDW’s Godzilla comics and down. Now at a great disadvantage, SpaceGodzilla was powerless was the first monster in those comics to be killed. to stop Godzilla from summoning Rodan’s life force and firing the Final Thoughts blood red Spiral breath at him several times. SpaceGodzilla ended SpaceGodzilla is a monster of a monster with a sheer amount of up exploding and dissolved into golden particles before returning intelligence. Being a clone of Godzilla with a will to conquer Earth to space, much like Biollante. makes him all the more frightening. He is Powers and Abilities: designed very well and has an amazing ar- Being a clone of Godzilla, SpaceGodzilla has all of Godzilla’s abili- ray of abilities. SpaceGodzilla was one of ties. However, these have been amplified and he has developed some the first Godzilla monsters I saw and he abilities specific to him. SpaceGodzilla can shoot a reddish orange left an impression on me. I also like play- Corona beam from his mouth and can control its path while it’s ing as him in Godzilla Unleashed for the moving. He can also encase himself in crystals and fly at an un- sheer amount of power he possesses. All known speed. He can also encase himself in a shield that is strong in all, SpaceGodzilla is an amazing mon- enough to deflect Godzilla’s atomic breath. SpaceGodzilla’s regen- ster and a worthy opponent for The King erative powers are super effective as well. 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